I've seen a lot of sporadic reports of other issues people have seen that, honestly, I haven't had any opportunity to spend time on. Right now! In fact it started a few minutes ago. Sub-headline 1: When does the Get-well plan start? I'd really ask that you hold off on that option if you can. Unfortunately people have not had a 100% success rate, and evidently some of you have to call a charge-by-minute line to do it (Me? I always use the chat option. As you've all noticed, they have helped some players get working again. If you DO see a CD Key entry - happy simming! It IS possible to circumvent this process by contacting the Support team for help. The most obvious is 'did you get that error?' The less obvious way will be to right-click (or Control+Click) on the game art in 'My Library' and select 'Game Properties', OR open the game page in Origin and click on the 'gear' icon and select 'Game Properties.' If you do NOT see a CD Key entry then your account hasn't been fixed yet. There are two ways you can tell if it's hit your account. It might even take as long as a few days. You do not need to download a new Origin client, or a new build of The Sims 3. This is a thing that is almost 100% invisible to you. You should see the size of the Zoom call I just got out of. Long story short, something broke at the very last step that none of us anticipated AND was really, really hard to track down. Without getting too far into the weeds, it has to do with how entitlements work within our publishing system, and tying together our modern system with some legacy systems.

We now know with very strong confidence what the root cause of the problem is. Here's the news! It's fresh, it's hot, the pixels are still steaming. That tells me I need to get away from Slack some more.)

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